[WAPO via New York Post] The 51-year-old man whose shooting by the Secret Service disrupted President Trump’s press conference is a 6-foot-3 former licensed boxer who was previously charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, according to a report.
Myron Berryman has been charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer after allegedly approaching a Secret Service agent Monday evening while claiming to have a weapon.
The officer shot Berryman in the torso when he "crouched into a shooter’s stance as if about to fire a weapon," officials said. I'm going with "Suicide by cop" attempt
Berryman, who has lived in Dayton, Ohio, Forrestville, Maryland, and, more recently, Wheeling, West Virginia, was charged in 2012 with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct in Prince George’s County, the Washington Post reported.
Sounds like it. There don't seem to be any photos of Mr. Berryman in any of the news stories. Should we assume he is black or a BIPI-POC or whatever the preferred category is nowadays?
Expect much hay to be made from the "fact" that the police callously shot an unarmed man.
[New York Post] It wasn’t a Toronto Chain Saw Massacre — but two blood-covered, chainsaw-wielding men terrorized beachgoers in Toronto over the weekend, according to videos and local reports.
The slasher-film-seeming footage, which was posted on Facebook, shows the duo, blood dripping down their shirtless torsos, pointing power tools toward a crowd at Cherry Beach on Sunday morning.
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Well it's not THAT crazy for Toronto. Well do I remember a summer day on a Toronto beach with my trust chainsaw . . . . no wait. That was my trusty cooler of beer. The chainsaw came about later.
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If the case is so strong, it should make itself instead of Voluntary Compliance Under Pain of Government.
Every US authority who nods in agreement with Australian Style Gun Control is green with envy.
Shit, at least in prison you are allowed outside for an exercise period.
At my campfire, everyone agrees it is only a matter of time before something very nasty gets going, and that the critical first moments between detection and isolation will be lost because of this absolute shredding of any moral credibility and authority.
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I am reminded of a play I saw with my school class, back before the internet.
I can't remember its name, but it was memorable for a couple reasons. First, my first experience with the Phelps Gangs.
OK, set in the future, stage is a multi-person dwelling. There is some sort of a babysitter, not sure if was like HAL or from control room. Resident were told that the outside was deadly, I forget if it was disease or radiation, considering the era probably nuclear fallout or such. Any rate, the residents were just kind of going through their daily motions, kind of ho humm, until one gets tired of it and finds a way to escape.
He gets outside, and the world is lush and beautiful. He finds a critter, and after a bit of acting the audience realizes he found a bunny and didn't know what it was.
This is the second reason it was memorable. My class thought this was the stupidest thing ever. We were kids, when we weren't in school or bed we were outside. Never heard of a rabbit, what a bunch of bull.
Back to the story, roommate catches him sneaking back in, confronts him over a very serious no-no. He gives 'its a wonderful world out there' speech. Well, she is intrigued enough she sneaks out, brings a flower back in to show all the roommates.
Well, she makes a mistake and the authorities find the flower, now they are in real trouble. The all escape, but the rabbit guy gets killed.
The play's dilemma was that although rabbit man died, they didn't realize how miserable their past existence was and how much happier they are now.
How ridiculous! Absurd! Unpossible!
Except here we are, cheering it on, and the actors in the play are today's children.
[Al Ahram] At least six people were killed and 35 injured in a fight over a plot of farmland in the Egyptian governorate of Fayoum, south of Cairo, in the early hours of Wednesday, al-Ahram Arabic news website and other local news outlets reported.
Initial investigations revealed the brawl in the Agmeen village took place between a group of 19 cousins over a piece of land. The squabble soon escalated into a clash with firearms that lasted for several hours.
Fayoum security directorate dispatched anti-riot forces to stop the fight and police cordoned off the crime site.
The victims were transferred to a hospital and prosecutors are currently investigating the incident.
At least four people have been arrested as authorities continue to search for some of the suspects on the lam.
Weapons used in feuds are often unlicensed and smuggled into the country illegally. The government proposed several initiatives in the past years to encourage people to hand over their illegal weapons since 2011 without legal accountability.
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[ReclaimTheNet.org] A potential to raise eyebrows for privacy and civil liberty concerns.
Africa is now becoming the testing ground for a biometric digital identity platform developed in a partnership between Mastercard, Trust Stamp, and Bill Gates’ GAVI Vaccine Alliance. While Trust Stamp provides identification authentication through AI, GAVI is an international organization created by tech mogul Bill Gates for supposedly helping underprivileged children access new as well as "under-used" vaccines.
The digital identity platform was first launched in 2018 and is now going to be implemented in the "remote" and "low-income" communities in West Africa. GAVI and Mastercard have created a digital vaccination record known as "Wellness Pass". Now the platform will be integrated with this Wellness Pass.
The biometric digital identity platform will have the vaccination records from GAVI, a payment system through Mastercard, and AI-based identity authentication via Trust Stamp. As of now, the whole project has been funded via donor funds to GAVI, which amount to nearly four million dollars, and a similar donation amount from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
With the COVID-19 saga in full swing, Trust Stamp’s authentication system is integrated with Wellness Pass. Once the vaccine for coronavirus is made available, it will be integrated into the whole system to keep track of the vaccinations in West Africa. It is worth noting that the whole biometric digital identity platform is launched with a motivation to bolster the markets for vaccines.
Mastercard, which is also in the alliance, says that it is working for fulfilling its vision of a "World Beyond Cash" that it outlined a few years ago.
What’s more, Trust Stamp, the organization providing AI-based authentication, is also looking to commercialize its proprietary technologies.
Mastercard say that Trust Stamp is looking to partner with "correctional systems" to provide authentication services to individuals on parole, without the need for ankle bracelets. What seems to be an effort to improve immunization measures can also be an experiment for fine-tuning the technologies involved before they’re made available for widespread global use.
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"And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark— the name of the beast or the number of its name. "
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So how are the “undocumented“ in America going to be administered their mandatory vaccine? Do they get fraudulent vax ID like they get .GOV ID
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The digital identity platform was first launched in 2018 and is now going to be implemented in the "remote" and "low-income" communities in West Africa
Ah, what has been referred to as The Slave Coast, perhaps BLM would like to comment?
Apparently that Imam screaming about this a couple months back isn't the kook he was being made out to be.
[Dhaka Tribune] A murder case has been filed with the Senior Judicial Magistrate court in Maheshkhali upazila of Cox's Bazar in connection with a reported shootout in 2017.
The plaintiff, Hamida Akhter, lodged the case on Wednesday afternoon regarding the murder of her husband, salt trader Abdus Sattar, which was allegedly framed as a shootout by OC Pradeep and 28 others.
The 29 people accused include the former OC of the cop shoppe Pradeep Kumar Das and five other members of the police force.
The five are SI Harunur Rashid, SI Imam Hossain, ASI Monirul Islam, ASI Shahedul Islam and ASI Azim Uddin.
Ferdous, 58, chief of the Ferdous Gang, is the main accused in the case. He is the son of late Nurul Kabir of the same area.
Hamida Akhter, the plaintiff in the case, said that her husband Abdus Sattar was killed at around 7am on February 14, 2017, with the help of Ferdous and his followers in Lambasia area of Hwanak.
The police did not file a case regarding the incident, which occurred in 2017, she alleged.
[TheTimes] Flu and pneumonia are killing five times as many people as coronavirus at present, with Covid deaths at their lowest since the end of March, figures show.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that overall deaths were below average for the time of year for the seventh consecutive week, while deaths from Covid-19 were at a 19-week low.
There were 193 deaths reported in the week ending July 31 that had coronavirus mentioned on the death certificate, continuing three months of falls since a weekly peak of 8,758 in April. It is the lowest figure since 103 died in the week ending March 20, on the eve of lockdown.
By contrast, 928 people died of flu or pneumonia in the last week of July,
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If so then it seems this is going to be a disaster for those of Asian descent since this thing attacks their lungs harder and leaves lasting damage each time.
The UK economy has officially entered recession after figures showed a second quarter of contraction That’s what happens when you lock everyone down. It reverses when its opened up again, people being what they are.
GDP was down a shocking 20.4 per cent in the three month to June at height of the coronavirus crisis Not shocking at all, under the circumstances.
UK's hit in the first six months of 2020 was the worst in the G7 with slump set to be the biggest in 100 years Never before has much of the world deliberately closed up shop for the duration. In 1918-1920 the Spanish flu rampaged round the world in four waves, infecting 500 million and killing 17-50 million. Current COVID-19 world statistics are 20.8 million infections and 747,258 deaths since January, where the death rate started flattening in April.
The economy did recover to an extent in the month of June with the ONS finding 8.7 per cent growth
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Sorry, but COVID is just not that excessively dangerous for the VAST majority of people. So your hyperbole that people are dropping like flies is frankly BULLSHIT. Most people need to be tested to even find out if they have had the virus, it's that insignificant.
The 99.95% of the population locked up to save the 0.05%.
The economics of madness from the mad medic touting an expensive "cure" to what wouldn't even be noticed as a problem but the vast majority of those afflicted.
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False positives, poor technique combined with everything in China being contaminated with traces of the virus...or battlespace preparation for the coming price negotiations. China will need to import a lot of food in the near future. Any leverage they can get will help.
[IsraelTimes] Cyber criminals from Lazarus group built fake LinkedIn accounts, tried to woo Israeli officials with lucrative job opportunities to gain access to their networks.
The Defense Ministry on Wednesday said hackers from a group linked to the North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n government targeted Israeli defense officials, luring them with fake job offers in a failed attempt
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[The Guardian] - People who have recovered from Covid-19 may lose their immunity to the disease within months, according to research suggesting the virus could reinfect people year after year, like common colds.
In the first longitudinal study of its kind, scientists analysed the immune response of more than 90 patients and healthcare workers at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS foundation trust and found levels of antibodies that can destroy the virus peaked about three weeks after the onset of symptoms then swiftly declined.
Just like in regular coronaviruses: c.f. The time course of the immune response to experimental coronavirus infection of man (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2271881/pdf/epidinfect00023-0213.pdf)
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No immunity suggests restrictions only postpone the inevitable, and my favorite Tex-Mex restaurant is still closed because it does a large-volume business.
No immunity - no restrictions. You may still wear a mask or stay at home - your choice.
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[JPost] - Passive immunization is when you are given antibodies formed by another patient who got the disease and developed them. An active vaccine, in contrast, is when you are injected with a dead or weakened version of a virus that tricks your immune system into thinking that you’ve had the disease, and your immune system creates antibodies to protect you. Actually, nowadays, such antibodies can be produced by the kilogram industrially. See
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/03/1005946/eli-lilly-is-testing-a-way-to-prevent-covid-19-thats-not-a-vaccine/
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And the MSM isn't bashing it like the Russian Sputnik V vaccine? Interesting. Anything that doesn't have Roche or GSK or pick-a-pharmaceutical-company's name on it is immediately suspect to MSM ridicule, no matter what "the science" says.
[gCaptain] In the murky story of how a cache of highly explosive ammonium nitrate ended up on the Beirut waterfront, one thing is clear — no one has ever publicly come forward to claim it.
There are many unanswered questions surrounding last week’s huge, deadly blast in the Lebanese capital, but ownership should be among the easiest to resolve.
Clear identification of ownership, especially of a cargo as dangerous as that carried by the Moldovan-flagged Rhosus when it sailed into Beirut seven years ago, is fundamental to shipping, the key to insuring it and settling disputes that often arise.
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You have three minutes to repeat that chain of ownership without looking.
A lot of entities involved. Is maritime shipping always this complicated, or does this look like covering tracks?
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Beirut is a magnet for nefarious commerce. That ammonium nitrate has been sitting in a warehouse for years.
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has Don Lemon posited that it belonged to Trump yet?
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[Al Ahram] At least six people were killed and 35 injured in a fight over a plot of farmland in the Egyptian governorate of Fayoum, south of Cairo, in the early hours of Wednesday, al-Ahram Arabic news website and other local news outlets reported.
Dhaka Tribune] A murder case has been filed with the Senior Judicial Magistrate court in Maheshkhali upazila of Cox's Bazar in connection with a reported 
